Still one of our favorite non-wastes of time.
Well, it’s been fun. Last one out, make sure to turn out the lights.
Listening to Blur in concert is nice, but seeing Blur in concert is better.
This is as close as Americans will get these days to a live Blur show.
The man gave 18 years of his life to Don Henley and Glenn Frey, yet despite numerous opportunities, he would not speak ill of them. Color us impressed.
Former Razorlight and current We Are Scientists drummer drops a new solo album. Popdose is giving away the title track.
Get ready to buy your third copy of Avalon, and smile while doing so.
It’s strange to see Duran Duran churning out live videos every other album like some New Romantic version of the Dave Matthews Band, but at the same time, it makes…
UK synth-rock pioneers revive golden-years lineup, make startlingly good album.
World Party’s cruise director chats about his new box set, and why some people should be forced to smoke marijuana.
Both gods of modern rock, both capable of causing night terrors.
The outspoken passionate one is a pariah, while the cold, calculated one is adored by millions. We’re doing this wrong.
David Medsker runs 1992 through the beat mix blender.
Welcome to our latest feature, in which we dissect the album that restored an artist’s chart prominence. First up: Duran Duran, and their improbable 1993 smash.
This album, for all intents and purposes, saved my life.
Here’s the back story: I had just graduated from college in the summer of 1991, I was in Connecticut. Girlfriend was in Ohio. I packed up everything I had and boarded a train to move to Ohio to be with her. But she was under tremendous pressure from her parents to break it off, and by the time I arrived, their smear campaign was clearly working. I rarely saw her, even though we worked in the same mall. I got a job at a record store, and one of the promo CDs that had just arrived was Squeeze’s new album Play. I had always liked the band but never bought any of their records. However, the local modern rock station (97X, holler) was giving it some support, so after hearing a couple songs I liked, I took it home with me and played it in the car of my friend Ed, who’s the only person I know who likes Squeeze more than I do. I vented all of my frustrations to him about the ridiculous predicament I put myself in as we blasted “House of Love,” because damn it, I was living that song. She was full of lies and boredom, a very acidic tongue waggled in her head, we seemed the best of friends, life had just begun…but on the roof a tile began to slip. The house of love caved in, and that was it. Fuck.
Or, to borrow an album title from the Judybats, Pain Makes You Beautiful. In 1990, Joe Jackson had just signed a spiffy new deal with Virgin Records after spending 10…
Think you know your music? How about just a snippet of music? Put your knowledge to the test in Popdose’s latest edition of Name That Tune.
With a new Mark Ronson-produced album about to hit shelves, Popdose puts Duran Duran under the microscope to examine their strange, wonderful career.
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In between more timely projects and content, the Popdose staff are dissecting albums from 1991, which happens to be one of my favorite years of music. It was also…
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Merry Christmas, Popdose Nation. God knows you’ve earned this. AC/DC – Mistress For Christmas Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas (12 inch mix) The Bird and the Bee…
The vote that determined which albums would make Popdose’s Top 20 albums of 2010 made one thing abundantly clear: everyone should stop listening to me. I am so far out…
If someone asks me what kind of music I listen to, I’ll give them the simple answer: modern rock. The truth, though, is a little more complicated than that (ain’t…
I’m baaaaaaack! Well, for a day, anyway. Took some long-overdue vacation time, and what was the first thing I wanted to do with my free time? Make another quiz, naturally….
Duran Duran’s “Liberty” turns 20 this year; David Medsker takes a look back at the group’s decline.
It’s White Label Friday, kids! When I say dance, you best dance, muthafucka! Note: It should be said up front that most of these MP3s were acquired during the Wild…
In the late ’90s and early ’00s, I went head first down the power-pop rabbit hole. I eventually regretted it for some reason (oh wait, I remember now — the…
No theme this week. Just a bunch of random stuff I’ve received in the past year that grooves me in one way or another. Enjoy! April Smith & the Great…
This will serve, for the time being anyway, as my last Name That Tune. And worse, I have yet to find a successor, but I assure you the game will…